The owner of Politico has praised the “inspiring message” of JD Vance’s speech that was met with horror in Europe, as he berated the continent’s politicians for their “whiny” response to the US vice-president.
Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, said many people had “intentionally misunderstood” Vance’s address at last weekend’s Munich Security Conference, in which he stunned the audience by claiming restrictions on freedom of expression in Europe were a gr